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Old Aug 16, 2008, 4:41 pm
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Originally Posted by Kezza25
slingbox is your friend, does more than you want and lots of good reports

http://www.slingmedia.com/
You say "lots of good reports" - do you have any personal experieince?

If you like to mandate what your family will watch whilst you're away (they watch what you watch) - and like the idea of having to be online permanently whilst away to watch tv - it's great.

It's a possible idea if you want to watch TV from a second property abroad whilst you have the whole family with you - and feel that you particularly have to watch stuff that's been broadcast between the time you left home and arrived at the prpperty - otherwise I would have thought most would consider it a very poor and impractical solution compared with recording a wide range of BBC, ITV and other channels that are available on a freeview on a Hummy and simply downloading the programmes onto your computer and taking it with. No annoying the family, no broadband required whilst away, certainty of having programmes you want to view etc ......

Perhaps even more importantly you have the programmes for the lounge and the flight (making you totally idependent of the vagaries of what's working and not) as well as the hotel ...... a no brainer!

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